"Boredom is the desire for happiness left in its pure state."-Giacomo Leopardi"Something that would reduce or enhance the feeling of boredom." - "We're not bored." "We're not capable of it."-Maurice Blanchot

Friday, February 11, 2005

Kenneth Reinhard: a much shorter quote

But it is only by means of risk taking, of undertaking actswith unpredictable results, that new thought can emerge. If theory willbecome more than the production of Code for the deciphering of Messages, more than the endless recycling of things we already know in always predictable new forms, it must break from the safety of familiar paradigms and calculated interventions.

There must be a throw of the dice for something new to emerge into theworld, and the desire of theory is for the production of new truths, notfor the repetition of old knowledge. Such truths are singular, momentary,vanishing, and theory is the vision that discerns what is universal inthem, and holds fast to it. (Thinking With Shakespeare: Manifesto For Experimental Critical Theory)